Ethnic differences in first-trimester thyroid reference intervals

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 913-915

  La'ulu, Sonia L ^a   Roberts, William L ^a,b  

^a ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; IODINE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LETTER; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REFERENCE VALUE; SELF REPORT; SERUM; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; REFERENCE VALUES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957754779     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2010.161240     Document Type: Letter

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